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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1900. No. 2469. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS NOTICE. The Stock Ledger of the Honokaa Sugar Company will be closed to transfers from January 30th to February 1st inclusive.

W. LANZ, Secretary. KAMALO SUGAR CO. 'Assessment No. 5 of 5 per cent on the assessable stock of the Kamalo Sugar Company will be due and payable on February 1, 1900, at my office, Merchant street.

FRANK HUSTACE, Treasurer. NOTICE. At the regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Honolulu Rapid Transit Land Company, held the 29th instant, the following persons were elected as officers: L. A. President J.

B. Vive President J. H. Treasurer J. A.

J. A. Kennedy The foregoing together with Messrs. A. McCandless, T.

F. Lansing, C. Hi. Atherton, and' W. R.

Castle constitute the Board of Directors for the ensuing year. J. A. GILMAN, Secretary, H. R.

T. L. Co. Honolulu, January 30, 1900. ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

I At the adjourned annual meeting of the stockholders of the California Feed held at their office January 30, 1900, the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year. Cecil Capt. W. B. Vice President T.

J. King and Mgr. C. The M. V.

above Forster officers also constitute Secretary Board of Directors. W. G. C. M.

V. FORSTER, Secretary. January, 30, 1900. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. At a special meeting of the Inter Island Telegraph held January 30, 1900, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: J.

H. F. J. Vice President Jas. F.

W. R. Secretary E. O. White Auditor These with R.

Catton, C. L. Wight, W. H. Hoogs and F.

B. Greany constitute the Board of Directors. W. R. FARRINGTON, Secretary.

Honolulu, January 30, 1900. MUTUAL TELEPHONE LTD. At the annual meeting of the above Company, held this day the following officers were duly elected. J. B.

President Cecil Vice President Godfrey H. E. Secretary J. M. who also constitute the Board of Directors.

H. E. McIntyre, Secretary. Honolulu, January 31, 1900. WANTED.

A bright, honest office boy. Apply to H. LOSE, Mutual Telephone Office. FOR SALE. Departure Bay Coal, just received and for sale.

ALLEN ROBINSON, Telephone 105. Sugar Plantation Are desirable investments for trust funds. We make a specialty of the bonds of such companies as have first been subjected to a thorough legal and financial examination; and we are prepared to furnish full data regarding the properties of the companies whose bonds we have purchased and offer for sale at prices to yield a safe income and good investment. We will take subscriptions for the following at premium: KAHUKU, 8-10 year gold bonds; security, issue, $200,000. EWA, 3-10 year gold bonds; security, issue, $500,000.

We are TRUSTEES for both of the above issues. HAWAIIAN INVESTM GEO. R. CARTER, Treasurer Tel. 184 409 Fort Honolutu ANOTHER CLEAN RECORD SIX DAYS WITHOUT A CASE OF PLAGUE.

By Tomorrow Honolulu May Consider Itself Comparatively Safe--Business Resuming Activity. Wednesday-Plague deaths, plague cases, suspicious cases, 0. It has been nearly six days since last case of plague in Honolulu city. The last case the one of Mrs. Emily Bisley, who died at Kaimuki last Friday morning.

Early the same day Man, Jim Dodd's Chinaman, died. The only case since then was the one of Assagura, Japanese, in the detention camp at Kalihi. One more day will tell the story SO far as Honolulu is concerned. If no other case occurs, which seems now likely to be the situation, plague may be regarded at an end. Today business resumed its confidence in great shape.

By the end of the weak, it is perhaps safe to predict, Honolulu will be back to its normal condition and this will be technically a clean port. Dr. Jobe was called to Kewalo this morning to see a native woman, on report of a sanitary inspector. He found nothing of consequence the matter. Mimi, the Japanese woman who died at Kalihi detention camp yesterday, not have bacteriological analysis thoroughly, proves typhoid fever to have the sole cause of death.

On the official records this morning the word "plague" opposite the name was scratched out and "typhoid fever" substituted. Tashi Nishi, the Japanese girl, aged 5, who was burned at Kalihi a few days ago, died yesterday afternoon. K. Kaholomoana, native man, aged 47, died at the Kerosene detention camp yesterday of syphilis. THE KAWAIAHAO DITCH.

In regard to the ditch of which Dr. Emerson made criticism at Board of Health meeting yesterday afternoon, and which he described as running "from Kawaiahao Seminary," Prof. Lyons that the real remedy is to cut a street through from South street west of the triangle store and running mauka past the Castle kindergarten and through the block on which the North Pacific Institute is located, and east of the Queen's Hospital to Kinau street. He surveyed this region twenty-five years ago. The rainfall the slopes of Punchbowl formerly found its way down Punchbowl street through to South street and Kewalo.

It was deflected from this course and formed the ditch complained of which runs through a portion of the Kawaiahao Seminary grounds, but for which the seminary is not responsible The blocks through which he thinks a street should be cut are very large ones and in his opinion ought to be cut in two by a street. While if the street were cut through, the drainage and sewerage system proposed would give it proper and suitable drainage and greatly improve the sanitary condition of the whole region. CHINATOWN STREETS. All interested are invited to meet with the Board of Health this afternoon to discuss the streets and alley. ways of Chinatown.

Property owners of the district are especially asked to The Board wishes now to lay out the town on sanitary lines preparatory to rebuilding at a future date. HOFFMAN-M'NEIL. The wedding of Dr. W. Hoffman, bacteriologist of the Board of Health, and Miss Katherine McNeill, formerly of the Boston Lyric Opera Company, will take place at St.

Andrew's cathedral at 12 o'clock noon tomorrow. Rev. Alex. Mackintosh will officiate. The bridal tour will extend to Dr.

Cooper's country home on Tantalus. ABOUT THE SAME COST. Everything a man needs to supply his burned laundry can be obtained of L. B. Kerr Ltd.

at a little more than the cost of a wash bill. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS BY AUTHORITY NOTICE OF HEARING. The committee of the Board of Health to whom was referred the petition of J. Alfred Magoon and others for permission to establish a steamlaundry on the Waikiki road with a drain-pipe leading to the ocean, will hear all persons interested in said matter at the office of the Board of Health on Thursday, Feb. 1, 1900, at 11 o'clock a.

m. F. M. HATCH. For the Committee Appointed by the Board of Health.

You're Another Sufferer from the result of poor repair work. But if you bring your Bicycle, Gun, Typewriter or any article of fine mechanism to us when it needs repairs, and it will be overhauled and put in such shape that it will meet with your thorough satisfaction. Better still, telephone us 565, and we will SEND FOR AND DELIVER WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE. We employ only he best skilled help and guarantee all our work. Kodaks repaired, Tennis Rackets restrung.

Keys made. Fine enameling a specialty. In fact repairing done in all its brunches. PEARSON POTTER LTD, 312 Fort Street Remember the 'Phone, 568 MR LAST FINAL LETTER TO THE BOARD OF HEALTH. Expresses Complete Satisfaction With The Results of His Visit-Dr.

Wood Makes Changes. A. B. Loebenstein; special sanitary delegate of Hawaii, will leave at 5 o'clock this afternoon for Hilo. This morning he addressed a letter to the Board Health in reply to Dr.

Wood's letter it he vertain recommendations, which were complied Mr. Loebenstein's letter: Your several communications having date of the 30th and notifying me of the action taken by the Board relative to health matters on the island of Hawaii have been duly received and considered. Having taken such steps for the further safeguarding of the public health in the different districts of the island of Hawaii, by the delegation of its authority to special agents in those districts, there is every reason to commend the action taken by your Board and to assure you and the gentlemen commissioned by it of the genial support of the people of Hawaii. Permit me, however, to call your attention to an inadvertance In the choice of two of your nominees and their districts of jurisdiction. Mr.

Walker, being a resident of North Hilo, and as such should be duly appointed for his district, while Mr. Lidgate being from Hamakua could not be prevailed upon to accept responsibility for a district remote from his own sphere of action. I doubt furthermore whether Mr. Walker would accept the office in Hamakua. Having before your reasons objecting to other than residents of a particular district, for the authority in such district, I trust your Board will reconsider its action relative to the above matter.

There is furthermore an omission in the case of South Kohala, with an import. ant port like Kawaihae and where upon my arrival a week ago I found steamer Upolu had landed 8 quantity, of of mail liquor matter and a both large unguard- ed. Kawaihae being mainly a feeder for Hamakua, and. the village of Waimea being in close touch with it than with Kohala, I would suggest that the appointment of spcial agent of that district be delegated to Paul Jarrett whose interests are divided between the disfricts of Hamakua and South Kohals. OPPOSED TO ALLEYS.

Dissent is expressed to the proposal to provide alleys in the new arrangement of the Chinatown area, and is expressed by men whose opinions arc given weight. The objection is based on the ground that alleys become the receptacle and dumping ground of garbage, the haunts of vice, and the location of structures likely to be unsanitary and which public opinion would not tolerate on streets. They therefore add to the difficulties of policing the town and of keeping it free from unsanitary conditions. Those who make the objection say: "Give us plenty of streets but no alleys The streets are more likely to be kept graded, paved and clean. They keep everything open to the police and to the health agents.

They are lighted at night and so afford no gathering places for the vicious or criminal, or the merely idle who are constantly falling into vice and crime." Comparison is made between New York and Chicago. In the former there are no alleys, or comparatively few, while in the there are one or more alleys in block. New York latter, has clean streets while Chicago has not. Chicago requires a much larger police force in proportion to population than New York does. The police of Chicago find in the alleys their most active field of service.

The health authorities find in them their most active field of service. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. At the meeting of the stockholders of the Inter-Island Telegraph Company (wireless telegraphy) yesterday afternoon the by-laws were read and adopted. The temporary officers were all re-elected for the vear 1900. Mr.

Cross reported that full payment to Marconi for Hawaiian rights had been made by the mail of December 8 and the next steamer should bring A receipt therefor. Mr. Wight had arranged the experts from the steamer outside the harbor and convey them to the other islands to begin work. HE ONLY REPEATS WHAT HAS BEEN SAID AROUND THE GLOBE. It has been demonstrated repeatedly in every state in the Union and in many foreign countries that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a certain preventive and cure for croup.

It has become the universal remedy for that disease. M. V. Fisher of Liberty, W. only repeats what has been said around the globe when he writes: "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my family for several years and always with perfect success.

We believe that it is not only the best cough remedy, but that it is a sure cure for croup. It has saved lives our children a number of times." This remedy 1s for sale by all dealers and druggists. Benson, Smith general agents, Hawaiian Islands. Hanan creates the style and leave others to follow. M'INERNY SHOE STORE.

HERE AT LAST. "The Hawaiian Scenic Calendar" published only by The Golden Rule Bazaar, 316 Fort street, was received by S. "Mariposa" and is the handsomest piece of work in this line ever offered the public. Secure one and send it to the folks at home -they will greatly appreciate it, and it only costs 50 cents. DISEASE THE REAL ENEMY SICK SOLDIERS A MAJORITY ON THE MISSOURI.

The Roll of Sixteen Dead Will be Added to Before the Journey's End. Philippine Conditions. The conditions on board the hospital ship Missouri show that the soldier who is struck by a Filipino bullet is luckier than the man whose system becomes inoculated with the disease germs of Philippine climate. Nearly all of the 272 soldiers on board the vessel are sick men and most of them are sufferwith dysentery. The sixteen who died between here annd Manila are not the only ones of the lot that left the scene of war who will never see home again.

Three or four others are almost certain to succumb before San Francisco is reached. "The wounded at Manila generally do very well," said Captain William I. Kneedler, executive officer of the ship, and most of them recover sufficiently to be sent home on the transports. For that reason most of our passengers are sick men. Dysentery and consumption are the two diseases that are making the greatest ravages.

Consumption is very bad in Manila. When it gets hold of the system makes most extraordinary progress. Some of those we it, have lost would have recovered if they could have been moved away from the islands. "The victims of dysentery are more numerous than consumptions and the disease is almost equally incurable. It has a bacillus, like the plague here, and no treatment, diet or climate change seems to effect many of the cases.

It is absolutely as necessarily fatal malignant case cancer. We have held post-mortens on some of the victims that died on the vessel, and found that the membranes of the stomach were nine tenths eaten away." On the deck of the Missouri are many men whose faces show the ravages of consumption or dysentery. Since reaching the vicinity of Honolulu and having fine weather they are able to sit on the deck, but some of them cannot recover and a large number will never be fit for active service again. Men to rigid medical examinations who only, about a year ago were able for enlistment are now certain invalids for life. They will be fit candidates for places on Uncle Sam's pension list.

Quarantine prevents the people of Honolulu from showing the sympathy and attention they would like to display, but Mrs. M. Damon has sent a large quantity of fruits and flowers, for which Captain Kneedler expresses the warmest thanks. Just Catore leaving the Philippines Captain Kneedler made a tour of Southern Luzon with General Young. The conditions there show a complete cessation of war's activities.

"I found the people perfectly contented and engaged in their agricultural said the captain, "and they are very prosperous. Splendid crops are being raised and many cattle, and there were no signs that the Filipinos were not satisfied with the new order of affairs. As far as this whole district is concerned, the trouble seems be at an end. In Northern Luzon there is still some rebellion, but an active campaign is begun, and the whole war is very likely to be done with in short order. "Manila itself is quiet and prosperous.

There is absolutely no sign of disturbance there. I was amazed at amount of work that has been done towards making the place sanitary. The town is in a remarkably clean condition." The Missouri has been called the finest hospital ship in the world and is really splendidly fitted up for the care of the sick and wounded. She has her own plants for the making if ice, soda, for disinfection, and operating rooms that are in every way up to modern requirements. When she was purchased by the government during the Spanish war, gifts of all sorts of to her by various American societies.

apparatus, other needs were sent She was originally loaned to the government for vear, free of all charge with all expenses paid, by the Atlantic Transportation Company and was afterwards bought for $180,000. The officers in charge are: Executive Officer Captain Wm. L. Kneedler, surgeon, U. S.

Asst. Surgeons D. F. Duval, C. J.

Manley, Act. Asst. Surg. J. J.

Reilly; Capt. and Quartermaster P. H. McCaull; Hospital Stewards H. Hartung and John B.

Anderson. The Missouri will probably not get away till Friday morning. Work is kept up all day and until midnight getting coal aboard. CHINA AND MOANA. The Two Steamers Due From the Coast Today.

The China's failure to arrive this morning led many people to think that she had passed by Honolulu on her way to China and Japan. Another theory was that she had been quarantined in San Francisco and therefore considerably delayed in leaving there. The Moana, which also due today, is of the line that carries English mails, and at this season of the year these steamers are very often held in San Francisco to wait for the coming of the mails overland. Heavy storms in the Rocky Mountains have often caused the through vessels for the colonies to wait for several days for mails from the old country. FOR CAMARINOS' REFRIGERATOR.

Per S. S. Australia-Peaches, Grapes, Oranges, Lemons, Limes, Celery, Caullflower, Cabbage, Pears, Plums, Fresh Salmon, Flounders, Halibut, Crabs, Eastern and California Oysters (in Tin and Shell), all Game in Season, Turkeys, Chickens. New crop of Nuts and Dried Fruits, Onions, Burbank Potatoes, Swiss, Parmasan, Rockefort, New Zealand and California Cream Cheese, Olives. Ail kinds of Dried Fruits.

MESSENGER SERVICE. The Honolulu Messenger Service deliver messages and packages. Telephone 378. Fine Book and Commercial Printing at the Star Office. THE GENEROSITY OF KAUAI NINE BUNDLES OF CLOTHING FROM THERE.

Mrs. Isenberg and Mrs. Rice Promptly Forward the Quickly Collected Donations -All Classes Join in the Work. Nine bundles of clothing for the received fugees by from C. Bolte Chinatown from have Mrs.

been re- Isenberg and Mrs. W. H. Rice of Kauai. The ladies who collected and sent it were so anxious that it should arrive here as soon as possible so that it would meet the urgent need, that much of it was sent overland from the places where it was collected or made, to catch the first steamer from the island.

It all came thoroughly sorted as to different kinds of gArments, and plainly marked on the outside so as to facilitate distribution. Both Mrs. Isenberg and Mrs. Rice and tell of the cordial co-operation of write cordial and sympathetic letters, all classes of people on Kauai in this work, making" giving and in preparing and garments. Storekeepers have given cloth and Hawaiian and Japanese women have helped in making it up.

The Japanese women have made fifty holokus which have been sent for distribution to the Japanese Ladies' Benevolent Association in Honolulu. The Japanese of the island have raised $100 for the help of the unfortunate. Both Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Isenberg indicate in their letters the most active desire throughout Kauai, to help the unfortunates.

SAY FOOD IS BAD. There is great dissatisfaction among the National Guard with the food that is furnished them. It is asserted that in consequenceof the food there is a great stomachic disorders and bowel complaints, among them, cramps and diarrhoea. For the meal last night it is said the evening, fare consisted of salt salmon which some assert was simply taken from the barrel and the lumps of salt washed it and served without cooking, a salad composed of tomatoes which were not washed nor all the stems picked off, chopped up in a tub with cabbage, and cut of which when it was served several sections of centipedes were taken by the boys to whom it served. In addition to this they was, bread and tea.

This morning they had meat which is described being 80 tough could not be eaten. The coffee is universally described as an abomination which there is no coffee but only adulterants, a concoction from which the despicable tea which is served is a welcome relief. Some of the stews that have been served as well as some of the other dishes are said to be positively nauseating. Inasmuch the government pays for subsistance at rate of fifty cents a day for each man, some of the guardsmen say they think they are not getting their share of the fifty cents worth. The complaints are very general among the men.

One remedy suggested is to have company cooks and to allow each company to form its own mess. But to this there are some objections made in the lack of kitchen facilities and the restriction of liberty it would entail that prevents some compantes from endorsing the plan. It is admitted however that if it could be done it would remedy much of what is complained of because each company could there see to it got all its allowance of fifty a day for each man cethat A strong statement of the things complained of is being prepared for presentation to Col. Jones. THE AUSTIN BLOCK.

Plans of Big Three Story Block to go On King Stret. Ripley Dickey are preparing plans for the new Austin block, to go' on King street between the Metropolitan Meat Company's market and the harness shop at the corner. Tenants of the wooden shacks there must leave today. Tenders for putting up the new block will be invited at once. The block will be three stories, of brick, with a front of Island stone, something like that in the Waverley block.

The arrangement of the first floor has not yet been determined as the tenants are yet to be consulted. Several plans of the first floor will be presented to the prospective tenants for choice. KAM TAI'S STORE. Attention has been called to the predicament of Kam Tai's fruit and notion store on Hotel street. When the quarantine was replaced at Christmas the proprietor and his clerks were caught in Chinatown, since then the store has been closed.

Friends of Kam are satisfied that all perishable goods in the place are now useless. It has been suggested that the Merchants' committee open the store and discard the spoiled merchandise. HAS FEW EQUALS. For light running, easy adjustments, and good work the Singer Sewing machine has few equals and no superiorsB. Bergersen, agent, Bethel street.

Clearing sale of harness' and vehicles this week at W. W. Wright's. PASS THE TIME PLEASANTLY. Steamer men in quarantine pass the time pleasantly by playing gramophones purchased from The Bergstrom Music Co.

New improved gramophones sold on easy payments. Going out of the business of importing harness and vehicles. Rare chance for bargains. W. W.

Wright. Note Heads, Bill Heads, Letter Heads and all kinds of Job and Commercial printing neatly and promptly executed at the Star Office. WHOLESALERS AS LOSERS WILL BE OUT OF POCKET MORE THAN CHINESE. Loss of Chinatown Serious Blow to the Jobbing Trade--Wholesaler Talks of Himself and Others. The brunt of the present business depression will not fall alone on the Chinese, whose houses in Chinatown were either closed or burned.

The wholesalers will be the greatest sufferers. Chinatown was the field for an immense business, shared in by every wholesale house in the city. It was good, prompt pay and a tory business in every sense. Reports to the contrary notwithstanding, Chinamen bought almost all of their goods in Honolulu. Even their Oriental food stuffs came through the European houses of the city.

Only the big wholesale Chinese merchants attempted to import. "The loss of the inter-island trade is a mere song compared the loss of Chinatown," said a wholesaler this morning. "Millions of dollars of goods went annually into the stores of the burned district. These goods came from every whole house in town and amounted in the year to a great item for each. Our concern is doing no business now.

We can not ship to the other islands. Chinatown is gone. In the past month we have not paid expenses, and we do not expect to pay penses in some time to come. "And, by the way, I think the wholesalers deserve great credit for the manner in which they have acted during the visitation of plague. Though each one saw plainly that the policy of the Board of Health would destroy a most important trade, not a complaint was made.

In fact the wholesalers were the most important factor in satisfying the Chinese merchants the crisis. Our statements to them in regard to future and the protection they would have went farther than any promises of the Board or the Government. "Hackfeld, Davies, Hyman, Phillips, Hoffschlaeger, Grinbaum, Kerr, Schweitzer, Fishel and the numerous other wholesalers who have a big trade in Chinatown have all encouraged the Chinese to submit to sanitary fires and regulations, the result that there has been no trouble. These firms have lost heavily, but I do not think one of them has complained. It will cost a great deal to re-establish their trade.

As I said before, I think these firms deserve great credit at the hands of the community." WING WO TAI COMPANY. Goods Have Been Fumigated and the Building Disinfected. The entire stock of goods of the Wing Wo Tai Company has been removed, fumigated and taken to the company's warehouse at Iwilei. The goods were hauled first to Collin's former harness shop on King street between Nuuanu and Smith which is a brick building and was used as the fumigating place and from was taken to the warehouse at Iwilei. The Wing Wo Tai building will- be thoroughly fumigated and disinfected.

The floors will nearly all be torn up and replaced with new ones. The wood work will be thoroughly washed and painted and the brick walls will be painted. Whitewash and other means of cleansing and disinfecting will be freely used. It was in Wing Wo Tai's place that the first case of plague ap- peared. CHINESE NEW YEAR.

This is official Chinese New Years Day. This morning Consul Chang Wei Pin visited the various camps and received the congratulations of his countrymen. Some few people are calling at the consulate, though no regular renearly all merchants of Nuuanu ception is being, held. This morning street set off fireworks and the children of the colony were given all the fun possible. BORN.

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